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budget the debt ceiling but it's also at the same time there seems to be schizophrenia because people don't like the idea of a precious metal like gold being back in the currency but they somehow like the idea of a fan a fantasy platinum coin fixing their debts. and problem is this gets a frantic is it madness or does this tell you yes it's actually stupidity max and i'm not saying that mr bernanke and whoever it was a came up with this ridiculous idea has a low i.q. that's not the case i'm defining stupidity as an unwitting tendency to self-destruction and. the idea of creating a trillion dollar coin is really to get around the debt limits and things like that which are all a charade anyway what's happening is that the u.s. government is spending well it depends on how you do your college thing with accrual accounting or cash accounting but they're running deficits of in between a trillion and a half for a five trillion dollars per year if you use a cruel accounting. so they're going to be printing up lots of money and whether they do it by creating a trillion dollar koreans. or not
budget the debt ceiling but it's also at the same time there seems to be schizophrenia because people don't like the idea of a precious metal like gold being back in the currency but they somehow like the idea of a fan a fantasy platinum coin fixing their debts. and problem is this gets a frantic is it madness or does this tell you yes it's actually stupidity max and i'm not saying that mr bernanke and whoever it was a came up with this ridiculous idea has a low i.q. that's not the case i'm...
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ceiling before and they want to threaten it to stop programs the constitution says that the president united states can and must pay the debt of the united states that you shall not challenge the debt of the united states and paying the bills that is a non issue veronica i mean. veronica invited me thanks veronica other than that of the nine are you going to have to end i don't know anything under three certainly on two things obama has many challenges to face in his second term and one of them probably the biggest are the republicans robert wiener live with us on the line from washington thanks for that thanks so much. now a train journey took a bizarre twist in rural russia this week on mt survived after falling out of a carriage but that's not it he was barely dressed for a night in freezing siberian forest earlier tom barton told me how the man managed to make it out of the woods alive. forty two for larry malcolm of who here is a long haul lorry driver was one of the passengers on this train pretty clocking its way through the forest in russia's far east during the night he goes
ceiling before and they want to threaten it to stop programs the constitution says that the president united states can and must pay the debt of the united states that you shall not challenge the debt of the united states and paying the bills that is a non issue veronica i mean. veronica invited me thanks veronica other than that of the nine are you going to have to end i don't know anything under three certainly on two things obama has many challenges to face in his second term and one of them...
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the republicans blinking and suggesting i want to fight this debt ceiling on this debt ceiling front, which would be good. they are going to keep us going every three months. we never get around to talking about the larger economic question. >> i don't want to have that conversation in the context of the three-month debt ceiling deals. if we are going talk entitlements, is there room to push on the entitlements and suggest a larger social safety net, things like providing opportunities for poor children beginning to close the wealth gap is a priority. >> raise the health care law. i think it's very important to remember that law isn't fully operational, yet. there is -- yes, exactly. there's an enormous amount of work to do. there's a lot of resistance in the states. that's going to be a struggle. >> one piece of that is in 1997 we did a balanced budget deal. one thing that happened when that period of republicans and democrats came together was step back and as part of consolidating the budget, they shift resources. that was the deal. it was a deficit reduction deal. one thing it cre
the republicans blinking and suggesting i want to fight this debt ceiling on this debt ceiling front, which would be good. they are going to keep us going every three months. we never get around to talking about the larger economic question. >> i don't want to have that conversation in the context of the three-month debt ceiling deals. if we are going talk entitlements, is there room to push on the entitlements and suggest a larger social safety net, things like providing opportunities...
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they are folding on the debt ceiling. they are hoping the timing will be better to deal with the sequestration with the debt ceiling but that is cosmetics. john is right. the premise of your question is right. this is a party that lost its way, lost its vision, lost its approach and the president is trying --. >>gregg: the president's approval rating is 53 percent and negative 48 percent and that is almost the lowest of any second-term president in six decades. nixon did better than that. however, look at the house of representatives republicans. they are showing disapproval rating at 73 percent. >> they have been perceived at negative, out of touch positions that are not popular. >>gregg: gay rights and tax rights? >> and they fit into the demonization they are protecting the rights of the rich. >> they do not have a pro growth agenda, creating jobs, they do not have a message. >>gregg: and the republican party is out of touch according to six in ten. five in ten, they rank poor on climate change and women's issue. >> th
they are folding on the debt ceiling. they are hoping the timing will be better to deal with the sequestration with the debt ceiling but that is cosmetics. john is right. the premise of your question is right. this is a party that lost its way, lost its vision, lost its approach and the president is trying --. >>gregg: the president's approval rating is 53 percent and negative 48 percent and that is almost the lowest of any second-term president in six decades. nixon did better than that....
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he is know chummy with the republicans on the hill after the debt ceiling negotiation. for that reason and other, his looming confirmation hearing could be bumpy. but if confirmed, lew will likely be dealing with the top issue in this second term, how to get the economy moving and addressing the count re's long-term fiscal problems. >> this is a president that is forced to grapple to the tenor of our times with the budget woes, with the economy that can't get over the hump. it's going to consume most of his time, i believe, in the second term. >> what he cannot do, going into this term is go from economic crisis to economic crisis. that's not leadership. what he will have to do is figure out how we address this in a broader policy way. >> health care reform cannot wait, it must not wait and won't wait another year. >> he chose kansas governor kathleen sebelius to get health care legislation done, he largely passed control over to continuing to get -- to congress to get the bill together. it became a messy process, about a 2,000-plus-page bill. >> this notion that this h
he is know chummy with the republicans on the hill after the debt ceiling negotiation. for that reason and other, his looming confirmation hearing could be bumpy. but if confirmed, lew will likely be dealing with the top issue in this second term, how to get the economy moving and addressing the count re's long-term fiscal problems. >> this is a president that is forced to grapple to the tenor of our times with the budget woes, with the economy that can't get over the hump. it's going to...